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Do you take me for a fool, sir? I know this can't be done.

Haskell simply makes you do a thing you should do: check that the thing you expect to be there is actually there. You can think of it simply as the compiler acting as a testing fra…

I'm with you on the "Hard disagree", but I'd say something like: one of the great rewards to being a Mathematician is that things are named after you, and you get that legacy. God …

IMHO, Ulysses is worth the time, but I agree about Finnegans Wake

I thought it was kind of rude, but it depends on context. Did H.G. Wells and Joyce have a friendship, or did Wells just decide to write him a letter out of the blue? It is kind of …

Haha! I thought the same thing. And now I shall continue writing PureScript, because I enjoy it :)

Location: New York, NY Remote: yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Full Stack and DevOps - JavaScript/TypeScript, Scala, Java, PureScript, Haskell, React, Node.js, AWS, Cloud…

my understanding is a qubit is roughly the equivalent of a transistor, so we've got a long way to go. That said, "53-qubit" seemed like a weird number and strayed from my understan…

Aww come on! No punch line?

tl;dr author answers his own question at the end with an affirmation. And he is indeed clearly sexist

I could not agree with you more! I use nix daily, and every time I go to edit it a nix file a voice in the back of my head says, "you should really start that Haskell to Nix compil…

PINATA | Senior Software Engineer | New York, NY | Full time, ONSITE TECH AT PINATA We like Facebook's OSS and functional programming. We're happily using React / Redux/ React Nati…

PINATA | New York, NY | Front/Back Engineers | Full time | Onsite We're hiring React, React Native, and Scala engineers. We place high value on pure functional programming. If that…

PINATA | Senior Frontend and Backend Engineers | New York, NY | ONSITE PINATA We're building a marketplace for field marketing. What's that? Ever notice the people working a booth …

I'll be more blunt: please fix ListView :)

well... I'm glad we know

A company I know well cough is built an app and pays about $7/download via Facebook ads. This company has tried many other options and while it has gotten more conversions using al…

Has anyone run this sort of thing on BigQuery? On the surface it seems like a cheaper option and couldn't be that hard to map SPARQL on top?

nope - vim

I think it would need to support payments in the opposite direction too -- deposits into someone's account. I'd love to see this!

I personally know many of the engineers at Gemini and have worked with some of them in the recent past. If I were going to choose a team to build a bitcoin exchange, the people I k…

Interesting post by @ratansebastian on using some W3C standards to expose data in Datomic, which is a triple store among many other things (triple stores are used to store RDF, a c…

Nice post by Dan James (@dwhjames) describing Scala's roots in ML in light of Martin Odersky's attempts to avoid Scala being pigeonholed as either functional or OO.